Monday, October 1, 2012

JUMPING OUT OF THE RUT AND FINDING EBER

don’t know about you, but I often get stuck searching the
same surname or state while neglecting many other perfectly fine
surnames and states. So today I decided I would get out of the rut, live on the wild side
and venture into a new state. Vermont
came to mind so I thought I would give it a try. I have no shortage of surnames in this state:
Barber, Boyden, Cutler, Haynes, Myers, Nichols and Roberts.

So here I was back again in Central New York. I did a quick scan of the names
and whose baptism do you think I found? EBER CRANDALL! If you have been
following my blog, you will know that Eber has been a real pain because there appear
to be countless not-the-right Ebers. Of course, this
Eber’s baptism did not correspond with the Eber I had been looking for either. I was struck by the irony of the situation.
Here I was trying to break out of a rut and explore a new state and new
surnames and I get thrown back into New York with Eber.

It reminds me of the phase "Life is like a box of
chocolates, you never know what you are going to get."